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I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.

Bill Parcells

In the end, I’ve found, people like the direct approach. It’s much more valuable to them to have a leader who’s absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.
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Circles Leader People
I’ll call somebody ‘dumb’ or ‘stupid’ if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don’t know any other word for it, and if they don’t like the word, that’s too bad.
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Dumb Make Play Stupid Word
There’s no grey area, there’s instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We’re not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.
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Better Gratification Happened Quarterly Reports
A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart
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Adversity Basketball Team
I love the game. I think it’s a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week.
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Game Motivational Sports Sunday Think
It’s a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It’s easier, but it’s not more comfortable.
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Comfortable Easier Winning
I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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Motivational Needs Sports
Any penalty – I’ve told you a hundred times – can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
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Judgment Motivational Sports
I see a little progress, … So as long as I keep seeing that, then I’m willing to give him everything I’ve got.
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Giving Long Progress
You don’t get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Game Inspiring Football Trying
It’s better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you’re weak, you’re likely to be wrong anyway.
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Anyway Attitude Better Weak
If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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Player Problem Vices
My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That’s pretty narrow… I don’t view myself as a person who’s well-versed in very many subjects. I’m not proud of that.
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Person Sports Subject Thinking Views
When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, ‘Do you think I’m Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?’ After that, they called me Tuna.
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Coaching Player Think Thinking
You lose with potential. You win with performance.
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Loses Performances Winning
There’s a line, players usually don’t cross it and coaches usually don’t cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had ’em. I’m not proud of those.
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Coaches Ems Little Player Tantrums Temper

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